Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights

Mandate

At its 26th session, on 26 June 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted
resolution 26/9 by which it decided “to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, whose mandate shall be to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.”

The
fourth session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group will take place from
15-19 October 2018 in
Room XX of the Palais des Nations, Geneva. During that session, the Working Group will discuss the zero draft “legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises”, as well as the zero draft optional protocol annexed to the instrument.

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Documents

Invitation for States and other relevant stakeholders to submit their comments and proposals on the draft legally binding instrument no later than the end of February 2019 (A/HRC/40/48, para 91 (a))English |
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